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GOVERNOR HADLEY : Ladies and Gentlemen: 
1 have been asked by those interested in this occasion tonight 
to call this meeting to order and preside. I will now ask 
Dr. Paul R. Talbot to deliver the invocation. 

DOCTOR TALBOT : Almighty God, we ask Thy bless¬ 
ings upon these Thy servants gathered here tonight to do honor 
to the memory of Thy faithful servant, Thomas Jefferson. 
Bless them and grant that whoever may look upon this bust 
may be reminded of the noble life and character of him whom 
they thus honor, and instil in their hearts a desire to walk 
with him before Thee and to emulate his life and character. 
Bless the donors and give them an abundance of Thy grace, 
we ask in the name of Thy Blessed Son, Jesus Christ. Amen. 

GOVERNOR HADLEY: The first number on the pro¬ 
gram will be a violin solo by Mrs. Bratton. 

Mrs. W. W. Bratton, accompanied on the piano by Miss 
Ruth Phillips, rendered “ Salut d’ Amour ” by Elgar, and 
“ Traumerei ” by Schumann. 

GOVERNOR HADLEY: I appreciate the compliment 
of having been asked by the members of the Krauthoff family 
and the Library Board of Jefferson City to preside on this 
occasion and introduce the speaker of the evening. This 
occasion is for the purpose of presenting to Jefferson City, on 
the part of the children of Louis and Sophia Krauthoff, a 
bronze bust of Thomas Jefferson. Upon the spot where we 
meet tonight, as the old residents of Jefferson City will remem¬ 
ber, was the Krauthoff home, and here the Krauthoff children 
were born and most of them grew to maturity. 

In memory of their parents, they present this bust to Jefferson 
City, in order that it may have a place here in the Library. 
[ 5 ] 


This occasion is both a fitting and appropriate one. There 
is no sentiment that is stronger in the human heart than the 
attachment for that place which we call home, and a fitting 
evidence and manifestation of that feeling is expressed in the 
action that is taken by the members of the Krauthoff family 
here tonight. 

It is now over one hundred years since the country of which 
the State of Missouri is a part was added to our national 
domain through the initiative and statesmanship of Thomas 
Jefferson. And, yet, this one hundred years and more have 
passed without a single memorial to his name and memory 
having been erected in that vast empire that his genius and 
his statesmanship added to the territory of the United States. 
One is now in process of construction in the City of Saint 
Louis and will be dedicated with appropriate ceremonies 
during the course of the coming year. And it is particularly 
fitting and proper that there should be this recognition of the 
greatness, the importance and the influence of Thomas Jeffer¬ 
son in the State of Missouri in the Capital City of the State 
that bears his name. Historians differ as to his greatness 
and as to his character, but any one of his many claims to 
distinction would be sufficient to secure a permanent and en¬ 
during place in history for any ordinary man. The author 
of the Declaration of Independence, the founder of the 
University of Virginia, and the author of the constitutional 
provision insuring religious liberty to the people of Virginia 
were the claims to distinction which he had placed upon the 
monument which marks his last resting place. It is a peculiar 
omission that he should have failed to have recorded there 
what perhaps is his greatest claim to distinction—the 
purchase of the Louisiana territory. 

[ 6 ] 


Upon this occasion and at this place tonight, both the mem¬ 
bers of the Krauthoff family and the people of Jefferson 
City are again fortunate in that they are to have the pleasure 
of listening to the presentation of this bust to Jefferson City 
by one of the most eloquent and gifted orators whom 
Missourians can ever claim as their own. 

In 1 826, upon the 4th of July, Thomas Jefferson died, pass¬ 
ing away upon the same day and near the same hour that 
his predecessor in the office of President and his opponent 
in national politics, John Adams, also died. Eighteen years 
later, the orator who will present this bust on behalf of the 
Krauthoff children was born, and during the long and event¬ 
ful life that he has enjoyed, he must have known many of 
the men who knew Thomas Jefferson and were his contem¬ 
poraries in the shaping of the destinies and of the establish¬ 
ment of the life of the new Republic. And it is a peculiar 
pleasure that has been accorded to me tonight by those 
responsible for this occasion in being asked to introduce to 
this audience Judge John F. Philips, who, on behalf of the 
members of the Krauthoff family, will now present this bust 
of Thomas Jefferson to Jefferson City. 

THE HONORABLE JNO. F. PHILIPS thereupon 

delivered the presentation address, as follows: 

Governor Hadley, Mr. Mayor, Ladies and Gentlemen: 
In performing the office assigned me this evening the 
proprieties of the occasion do not permit that I should 
attempt more than a sketch of the outlines of the public 
career, and a panoramic view of the character of Thomas 
Jefferson. Like the Cosmos, the whole composite man 
[ 7 ] 


extends through latitudes and longitudes of human great¬ 
ness. My thought is to present only such features as may 
make a pleasing foreground for the picture I would draw. 
Mr. Jefferson came upon the public stage of action when 
the American Colonies were under British rule. Cen¬ 
turies before, the Barons and Commoners of England had 
wrung from the perfidious King John, the Magna Charta, 
by which they put an end to so much of despotic power 
as enabled the King, at his will and pleasure, to send out 
his armed Constabulary to drive into his shambles the cattle, 
and confiscate the substance of his helpless subjects to feed 
the insatiate, ravenous appetite of a spendthrift, weak- 
minded autocrat. And, of far more concern, it declared 
that the King, under no pretext, should go upon, or 
send upon his subjects and seize their persons, forfeit life 
and property, without a hearing and judgment in due course 
of legal procedure. But centuries supervened before the 
conception of such a thing as government inseparable from 
the personal rights and dignity of individual man came into 
full political life. With all their advancement in civiliza¬ 
tion, the arts, law and government, the Anglo Saxons had 
yet the lesson to learn that 

“There’s still on earth a yet auguster thing, 

Veiled though it be, than Parliament or King.” 

Burning like the unquenchable fire of the sun, there was in 
the breast of Thomas Jefferson an instinctive passion for 
human liberty—a desire to have placed a strong restriction 
upon centralized power, and a corresponding enlargement 
of the autonomy of the individual. Political philosophers 
and publicists had long discussed in the abstract the differ- 
[ 8 ] 


entiation of collectivism and individualism. But this q uestion 
came up for solution in the concrete when the American 
Colonists were confronted with the task of establishing an 
independent government on the virgin continent; and they 
at once recognized the necessity of the coordination of these 
principles, if they would create effective, enduring, demo¬ 
cratic government; so as to have government without 
oppression, and liberty without license. 

Mr. Jefferson stoutly maintained that there inhered in the 
very nature of the rightful kingship of man certain inalien¬ 
able rights and immunities of person and property the mailed 
hand of government should never be permitted to impinge 
or fetter. It would strike him dumb with amazement if he 
could appear today and witness what has been done, and 
what is proposed to be done, in the name of progress, in 
the exertion of the kingly prerogative of visitation, with 
inquisitorial agents thrusting themselves into the private con¬ 
cerns, exercising a supervisory jurisdiction over the business 
affairs and personal habits of the individual. Believing that 
that government is best which governs least, his notion was 
that the general government should be kept as far as possible 
from the domestic concerns of the people, and from inter¬ 
fering with the mere police powers of their local govern¬ 
ments. 

In the opening preamble to the second Magna Charta, the 
Declaration of American Independence, written by his own 
hand, he asserted that all men are born free and equal. He 
did not believe in human slavery; but that all men, as God 
made and fashioned them, come into the world breathing 
the air of freedom, and, therefore, it is a perversion of 
natural law to enslave either their bodies or their minds. 

[ 9 ] 


By the term “equal’’ it were to dishonor his memory to im¬ 
pute to him, a student of biology and sociology, the idea 
of the equality of men either in their intellectual or moral 
make-up. What he meant was that all men, by birthright, 
according to their gifts and opportunities, should enjoy 
equal privileges to strive, acquire and hold. As fully 
as any wise man, he knew there was one glory of the sun, 
another of the moon and another of the stars, all differ¬ 
ing in magnitude. And, as these luminaries differ in 
power and glory, so in the world of men they differ in 
their mental qualities and power of control; so that some 
must teach and others must learn, some must govern and 
all must obey, in order to maintain their proper relations 
to prevent confusion and disorder. 

While Mr. Jefferson, for instance, in statecraft, diplo¬ 
macy and political economy was as superior to Washing¬ 
ton as Gladstone to the Duke of Wellington, yet Wash¬ 
ington and Wellington, in military genius and tact, were 
incomparably superior to Jefferson and Gladstone. 

From the very bent of his mental constitution and tastes, 
while Governor of Virginia, Mr. Jefferson was so immersed 
in matters of legislation and economics, that, while General 
Washington was fighting with heroic desperation the 
British army from the Hudson to the Savannahs of the 
South, he quite nigh suffered the enemy to overrun his 
State from the South. Just as Mr. Madison, who was a 
statesman but not a soldier, when President, hardly knew 
of the approach of the British fleet until the Capitol was on 
fire, when he took refuge in the interior of Virginia. 

All men are not equal in their adaptabilities—their com¬ 
prehension of opportunities and emergencies. This is 

[ 10 ] 


what Napoleon Bonaparte meant when he said he could 
whip any general who fought with his watch in his hand. 

Thus we find, from history, that Mr. Jefferson was engaged 
in foreign diplomacy, in the study of the portend of the 
rising storm of Republicanism in France, when the con¬ 
vention, at Philadelphia, was formulating the federal 
constitution. He was in intercourse with thinkers like 
Condercet, D’Alembert, Destuut de Tracy, and other 
liberalists, drinking in the atmosphere about him, ringing 
with the words “ Liberty, Equality and Justice.” So that, 
amid such surroundings and under such impulses, when he 
first read the report of the Constitution that convention 
framed, he was dissatisfied with its work. He wrote in a 
letter that some of its provisions staggered him. His con¬ 
ception was that it drew too much of power from the State, 
and concealed within its phraseology powers buttressing 
centralization, which by the insidious process of construc¬ 
tion might minimize the sovereignty of the State, and lessen 
the free play of democratic principle in government. In 
other words, the Constitution, as it was framed, was not, 
in some respects, as he would have expressed it. And 
thenceforth he watched, with an extreme jealous eye, 
every movement of the departments of the general govern¬ 
ment, especially the judiciary, with which he had some¬ 
thing in the nature of a personal quarrel, lest they should 
encroach upon what he conceived to be the reserved rights 
of the States and the people. On this “ goary field ” of 
battle the politicians have, for over a century and a quarter, 
waged ceaseless war, with varying success; with partisan 
soldiers deserting first one side and the other, too often as 
their own political fortunes suggested. So the old consti- 

[ 11 ] 


tution has seen a hard time. It has been discussed and 
“cussed,” bombarded and battered; but it lives on, as the 
palladium of our liberties and the amulet of our protection. 
Mr. Jefferson was not so obsessed with some of his precon¬ 
ceived theories as to fail, later, to perceive that in some of 
the veiled expressions of the Constitution, the prescient 
statesman who phrased it displayed astute wisdom. So 
that he found, by implication in the treaty-making power, 
authority to acquire by purchase from Napoleon Bonaparte, 
the Louisiana Territory, whereby he added an empire to 
the republic. And he became so much of an expansion¬ 
ist as to look with a contemplative eye upon the Canadian 
possessions, as a suitable cap-sheaf to the United States. 
By the same token, our territorial acquisitions have extend¬ 
ed from the Rio Grande to Puget Sound, sweeping over 
the seas to Alaska, Hawaii, Porto Rico and onward, un¬ 
til the nation’s flag gathers in its ample folds the sunlight 
of the Orient; and we can boast today that the sun hard¬ 
ly sets on its azure field. 

How the times do change; but all change is not improve¬ 
ment. Mr. Jefferson gave up his seat in Congress for that 
of delegate to the State Legislature. I doubt, if he were 
living today, that he could be persuaded or cajoled into 
running for the legislature, and if he did consent, he might 
not be elected in these times of men “big with vacuity.” 
Mr. Jefferson was devoted to his home State, and intensely 
interested in its local affairs. There were fastened upon 
its laws some things, imported from the mother country, he 
abhored. He believed in religious liberty. With pen and 
voice he insisted upon the complete separation of Church 
and State, so as to effectually extirpate ecclesiasticism in 
[ 12 ] 


civil government. While it was left to Mr. Madison to 
carry to completion what he inaugurated; what he thus 
began has been written into the bonework of the political 
organism of the American States. 

The laws of Primogeniture and Entailed Estates, inherited 
from the common law, he warred on with uncompromising 
determination. He regarded as unjust, akin to inhumanity, 
the custom under which the entire estate of the ancestor 
went to the first born male child. He held that the other 
children, under the dictates of natural law, springing as 
they do from the same loins, and nurtured at the same 
breast, were as much entitled to the sustenance and protec¬ 
tion of the ancestor as the first born male. 

So of entailed estates. He regarded it as buttressing a 
landed aristocracy, and a relic of feudalism, wholly alien 
to a country where landed estates are regarded as allodial; 
and he had it wiped from the statute law of the State. 

Mr. Jefferson was an educated man. Born under a for¬ 
tunate star, he had the advantages of the best tutoring and 
schools of the Colony of Virginia; as well as access to 
good libraries, from which he gleaned the best there was 
of “black lettered wisdom.” The Greek, Latin and 
French he read with facility. He was no orator, or 
advocate, but in elegance of diction, sententious vigor and 
virile English he was a master. His tongue was in his 
pen, and in it was the power of eloquence. 

Profoundly impressed with the conviction that ignorance is 
the open sesame to a people’s degradation, and that uni¬ 
versal education points the way to a nation’s exaltation, he 
earnestly strove to have the State Legislature adopt the 
plan, formulated by him, for the establishment of a system 
[ 13 ] 


of graded public schools. But he was in advance of his 
day. Then, as too often since, the “moss-back,” and the 
“gray-back” were in evidence, who would rather take the 
chances on the spread of the scourge of cholera and small¬ 
pox than separate themselves from a dollar to prevent it. 
In his retirement, amid the inspiring scenes and sweet peace 
of Monticello, the fertile mind of Mr. Jefferson centered 
the residue of its accumulations of wisdom and experience 
on the founding of the University of Virginia, every detail 
of plan and specification for which his mind conceived and 
his adept hand sketched, and the erection of the building 
he personally superintended until his own finish. 

It has ever been as fascinating as pathetic to me to look 
through the mind’s eye upon the picture of that grand old 
man, when too enfeebled to ride to it, with pale face and 
emaciated body, sitting upon the veranda of his home, 
with eyes, from which the light was fading, gazing through 
the telescope out upon the mountain side, wistfully watch¬ 
ing the work on the building. With the eye of prescience, 
I doubt not, the sage and philosopher looked down the 
vista of time and saw a stream of ardent young men com¬ 
ing out of that university, spreading out over the Continent 
a vast, constantly recruiting army of teachers, preachers, 
lawyers, lawgivers, statesmen and scholars, who would 
bless and glorify the Republic. Some of the ablest judges 
who have adorned the Bench of the Supreme Court of 
Missouri were of the alumni of the University of Virginia. 
Aptly has it been said : “The world has a million roosts 
for one man, but only one nest.” One of the most beauti¬ 
ful qualities of the multiform traits of Mr. Jefferson’s char¬ 
acter, was his passionate fondness for the Farm and Home. 

[ 14 ] 


He was the Cincinnatus of American statesmen. Supreme 
was his delight as he rode over the magnificent estate of 
Monticello, witnessing the marvels of nature as she perform¬ 
ed the sacred mystery of reproductive growth. He walked 
among the browsing, feeding herds, reveled in the harvest 
scenes and listened to the wild birds chirp and sing their 
sweet, inimitable songs. 

He had had a large share of what men covet of honors. 
He had mingled with Savants, Princes and Nobles of the 
old world. He had received the almost idol adoration of 
the new world, as the author of the Declaration of Ameri¬ 
can Independence; and he had sat upon the most exalted 
seat of human distinction, as President of the United 
States. But after it all, in his retirement he wrote to his 
friend, Francis Wilson : “ The happiest moments of my 
life have been the few I have spent at home in the bosom 
of my family. Employment anywhere else is a mere loss 
of time. It is burning the candle of life in mere waste for 
the individual himself. I have had more of the confidence 
of my country than anybody . . . Public employment 
contributes neither to advantage nor happiness; it is but 
exile from one’s family and affairs.” 

After having given about thirty-five years of the richest 
fruitage of my own life, in war and peace, to the public 
service I can freely subscribe to the sentiment of that letter. 
At Monticello Mr. Jefferson had spent all too short his 
freest and happiest days in the companionship and love of 
his beautiful and charming wife. To him the fairest, 
sweetest flower that bloomed in its vast garden was his 
Martha. And although she had long lain in the voiceless 
tomb, and no one had come to take her place in the house- 
[ 15 ] 


hold, the home was never entirely desolate to him, for her 
memory perfumed every nestling place about its enclosure. 
Eminently fitting, therefore, is it that this bronze bust of 
such a man should be selected by the children as a memo¬ 
rial gift to this Library and City, in memory of Father and 
Mother—two people who, in their plain fashion and noble 
virtues, illustrated what is commendable in social and 
private life. 

The father, Louis Nicholas Krauthoff, and the mother, 
Sophia Riseck, in their youth, came, at separate dates, from 
Germany. Their ancestors were of a sturdy clean stock. 
Locating in the city of St. Louis, they sought in this land 
of freedom and opportunity abetter estate and condition. 
They came without the pomp of heraldry, to win for them¬ 
selves “the long pedigree of toil, the nobility of labor.” 
They married in St. Louis, where some of their children 
were born. Finally removing to the capital of the State, 
they settled down with the grim determination to earn a 
competency and an honorable name. 

It was not my fortune to have known personally Mr. Louis 
N. Krauthoff. He had gone “nature’s way” before I be¬ 
came acquainted with the family. 1 only know from tradi¬ 
tion that in his young manhood he pursued the honorable 
avocation of a mechanic and tradesman. He enlisted under 
the flag of the Union, early in the Civil War of 1861. 
His health failing, he was unable to prosecute, with wonted 
vigor, his trade. Misfortunes then accumulated, wearing 
out his heart, when the Grim Reaper gathered him unto the 
harvest of the grave. He left his wife with the care of five 
young children, with no other wealth than her rare intellect¬ 
uality and tremendous energy. 

[ 16 ] 


It is my good fortune to have known personally “Mother 
Krauthoff,” as she was affectionately called by her troops 
of friends. To my way of thinking she was among the 
splendid good women one meets in a lifetime. She had 
in her blood the strain that so often tells for great deeds 
and sacrifices to a remote descent. But, without making 
any claim to the prerogative of illustrious ancestry—with¬ 
out the adventitious aid of academic education—she was, in 
her way, a genius, possessing in rare degree that faculty 
which is said to be the first to advance and the last to sur¬ 
render in the battle of life, strong practical common sense. 

There was not an atom of folly or dross in her character. 
It was all wisdom and gold. Without the vaunt of osten¬ 
tation, or a particle of false pretension, she stood for what 
is best in womanhood. She did not eat her heart out with 
the ambition to dizen on the stage, or stalk on the hustings; 
nor was there any place in her nature for sickly sentimental¬ 
ism. The home to her was a queenly castle, and the glory 
of motherhood was honor enough. She maintained a home 
for her children, and gave them the best education within 
her reach. She qualified her daughters for social recognition 
and useful lives, and they are known for their brilliancy and 
independence. The three sons, Louis, Karl and Edwin, 
furnish a striking illustration of the privileges and blessings 
of our American institutions. Had they been reared and 
remained in the land of their ancestors, where the red-hot 
ploughshare of caste runs a broad and deep furrow through 
the center of society, on either side of which flourish, in 
rank growth, the most contrary ideas and usages, no matter 
what their capabilities and specific force of ascension, the 
probabilities are that the iron hand of custom and arbitrary 
[ 17 ] 


distinctions would have compelled them to wear out their 
lives on the treadmill where their fathers did grind. 
Inheriting the mentality and high spirit of their mother, the 
sons have made a white mark in the world. Karl had the 
spirit of adventure, which led him from home toward the 
remote western frontier. Finally enlisting in the army he 
has gone on, leaping over grades, until, emeritus, he has 
become a Lieutenant-Colonel in the regular army of the 
United States, entrusted with most responsible positions, 
and enjoying the confidence and respect of inferiors, equals 
and superiors in rank. 

Louis and Edwin, in their comparative youth, entered the 
lists of the learned profession, as lawyers. Their brilliant 
achievements are matter of common fame. I know how 
the eye of Mother followed with affectionate solicitude the 
struggles and triumphs of her youngest born, and I also 
know how her heart swelled with pride and gratitude as 
she lived to behold the extraordinary attainments of her 
eldest born, Louis, as, like a young eaglet, he spread 
wing and flew to the summit among the foremost lawyers 
of the American Bar. 

The only living grandchildren are Philip Chappell, son of 
Louis, and Samuel Barnet Vance, son of Edwin Krauthoff. 
They are splendid boys, who give every promise of pre¬ 
serving and transmitting the noble virtues and mental quali¬ 
ties of their forebears. 

How beautiful and admirable it is in these children to come 
here, to the home of their childhood days, proud of their 
ancestors, bringing the golden sheaves of the harvest of 
appreciation and affection, as an offering to their memory. 

[ 18 ] 


It is a happy concurrence of incidents that this memorial 
offering should be made here. A part of the ground on 
which this building stands belonged to Louis N. Krauthoff 
at the time of his death. Leaving it encumbered with 
debt, young Louis, out of the first earnings of his profession, 
redeemed it. 

This city, at its founding, was named in honor of Thomas 
Jefferson. It is the only incorporated municipality to my 
knowledge, by the name of “City of Jefferson.” 

This bronze bust in this educational institution is ideal; 
where the multitudes who will come hither while these 
walls shall stand, may receive the inspiration of the life 
and character of one of America’s greatest statesmen and 
philanthropists; and where it will be an eloquent evocation 
of the virtue of filial devotion. 

Mr. Mayor and Gentlemen of the Board, on behalf of the 
donors, I present this bust, with its pedestal, and beg that 
you accept and give them an honored place in this building. 
GOVERNOR HADLEY: I am in hopes the time is 
not far distant when the example that has been set by the 
children of the Krauthoff family in the presentation of this 
bust of Thomas Jefferson to Jefferson City will be followed, 
not only by the people of this municipality, but by the 
people of the State of Missouri, and that there will be 
erected here in the Capital City of the State some statue 
or monument fittingly expressive of the respect that the 
people of this State should have for the memory of this 
great statesman. 

I am reminded that the passing of time and the provisions 
of the Missouri Constitution make this the last occasion 
when I will appear at a public function in Jefferson City 
[ 19 ] 


as Governor of this State. I am almost tempted to express 
to you again, as I have on previous occasions, my regret at 
leaving you, and my sincere appreciation of the very pleas¬ 
ant associations that my family and myself have enjoyed 
with you during the course of the last eight years. On 
these various public occasions when it has been my pleas¬ 
ure to appear, it has always added to the satisfaction and 
the appearance of the occasion that we had with us one 
whom I have appropriately described as our pulchritudinous 
Mayor, and tonight he will accept, as the Mayor of the 
city and as ex-officio chairman of the Board of Directors of 
this Library, this bust that is presented upon this occasion 
in such eloquent and fitting language by Judge Philips. 

It is unnecessary, of course, after listening to the address 
of Judge Philips that very much should be said, and it is 
always unnecessary on the part of the Mayor that he should 
say much, because that which he does speaks for him. I 
now have the honor of introducing to you Mayor Thomas. 

MAYOR THOMAS thereupon delivered the acceptance 
of the Memorial as follows : 

Judge Philips, Governor Hadley, Ladies and Gentlemen : 
I am very glad that in closing his remarks the Governor 
used the language he did in connection with me. I refer 
to the last part of his remarks—that it was not necessary for 
me to say much. I am glad that it is not, because the gift 
of being able to talk in public is one that has been denied 
me. After listening not only to Governor Hadley, but to 
the most eloquent address of Judge Philips, I am frank in 
saying that I have forgotten every word I intended to say. 

[ 20 ] 


Our city, as you know, and as I took the trouble to find 
out for myself, is the only town, as Judge Philips has told 
us, by that name in this country, not only in the United 
States, but in the Louisiana Purchase that this man gave 
to us, and for that reason it is very appropriate that this 
city should be glad to accept anything that reminds us of 
that great man. I have the utmost respect and admiration 
for any man who can read the future. It is easy to follow; 
it is hard to lead. In every walk of life, except that of 
being a soldier, this man led. It was no easier to lead in 
those days than it is now, and, therefore, I say that I honor 
and respect the man who gave our city its name. If he 
were alive today, I don’t think he would be ashamed of 
his namesake. Nature has done so much for our immediate 
vicinity and for our town that it has not been necessary 
for us who live here to do very much more. Jefferson 
City, as those who know can testify, and those who are in 
a position to know do say, is one of the most beautiful 
spots, not only in Missouri, not only in America, but in 
the world, and in selecting a spot to be named Jefferson, 
no more beautiful place could have been selected than our 
own immediate town. 

It gives me pleasure, not only because of my own personal 
feelings in the matter, but because of the city I represent 
at this time, to accept this token of esteem and filial love, 
because, as Judge Philips says, many things mingle in this 
presentation that make it most appropriate. There are 
three words which mean much in the world; in fact, they 
move the world. Two of them are expressed in the words, 
mother and home. I refer especially to the mother, be¬ 
cause she was the member of the family whom I knew. 

[ 21 ] 


And the home was here immediately under the spot where 
I stand, and as a child I played through the alleys and 
streets around here. We honor those who honor their 
parents, and we honor those who honor their home. And 
in accepting this bust in behalf of Jefferson City, which i 
do with the utmost pleasure, I can only finish by saying 
that it will remain in this Library as a token to those who 
care to heed such tokens that there is no nobler sentiment 
in all our lives than to not only honor great men and great 
deeds, but above all to honor the place of our birth and 
our parents. On behalf of the City of Jefferson I accept 
the statue. 

GOVERNOR HADLEY : The next number on the 
program will be music by the quartet, at the conclusion of 
which we will stand and join with the quartet in singing 
“My Country ’Tis of Thee,” after which Dr. Bailey of 
the Baptist Church will pronounce the Benediction and 
we will stand dismissed. 

The quartet, composed of Mrs. Anna Moore, the Misses 
Martin and Mrs. W. A. Dallmeyer, sang “Hark! Hark! 
the Lark,” by Schubert. 

The audience here joined in singing “My Country ’Tis of 
Thee.” 

DOCTOR BAILEY: We pray Thee, Our Father, that 
each of us may love his home, his country and his God, 
and that because of deeds of devotion nobly performed 
through all time we may be members of the choir invisible 
whose music is the glory of the world, for Christ’s sake. 
Amen. 


[ 22 ] 


'Uhis book Was printed on hand made paper, 
for L. C. Krauthoff, Esq., in February, 
1913, by H. K. Brewer & Co., New York 


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